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Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 2 min 57 sec A tracking camera at positioned on a mound along beach southeast of launch pad 39A provides this angle of space shuttle Atlantis' liftoff. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129 launch replays: Camera 070

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 29 sec Launch pad engineering camera 070 provides a front view of space shuttle Atlantis during ignition of the main engines and the billowing plume of stream in the last seconds of the countdown. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129 launch replays: Camera 071

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 25 sec Launch pad engineering camera 071 is zoomed in on space shuttle Atlantis' three main engines to give this close-up view during ignition. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129 launch replays: Pad perimeter

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 1 min 4 sec The launch pad 39A perimeter camera gives this side view of the space shuttle igniting its engines and roaring skyward for STS-129. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129 launch replays: West tower

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 27 sec This view of space shuttle Atlantis' liftoff is captured from a tower west of pad 39A near Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129 launch replays: Front camera

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 2 min 40 sec Footage of space shuttle Atlantis' climb away into the sky is captured from this camera positioned in front of launch pad 39A. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129 launch replays: Press Site

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 1 min 12 sec This is the view from Kennedy Space Center's Press Site at Complex 39 as space shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-129 space station mission. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129 launch replays: VAB roof

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 2 min 38 sec From atop the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building located three-and-a-half miles away, this launch video was recorded by a public affairs camera. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129 launch replays: UCS-23 tracker

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 1 min 9 sec This video of space shuttle Atlantis' launch on STS-129 was captured by the UCS-23 tracking camera positioned southeast of the pad. (Replay includes live launch audio).

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STS-129: Atlantis' launch as seen live

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 3 min 47 sec The space shuttle Atlantis launches at 2:28 p.m. EST a mission to fortify the future of the International Space Station with the delivery of spare parts and equipment.

Posted: November 16, 2009Duration: 3 min 19 sec The astronauts -- three veterans and three rookies -- finish donning and complete pressure checks of their the day-glow orange ascent and entry partial pressure spacesuits in crew quarters on launch day.

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STS-129: Time-lapse of gantry retraction

Posted: November 15, 2009Duration: 1 min 4 sec As the sun was setting at the Kennedy Space Center on the eve before launch, the rotating service structure was retracted to reveal shuttle Atlantis. The gantry rollout with a stunning backdrop is presented here in time-lapse form.

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STS-129: Space station science

Posted: November 15, 2009Duration: 42 min 42 sec Researchers using the International Space Station as an orbital scientific laboratory facility discuss the the complex and activities being conducted there in this briefing held the day before Atlantis' launch.

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STS-129: Sunday status briefing

Posted: November 15, 2009Duration: 15 min 14 sec A progress report on activities in space shuttle Atlantis' countdown to launch and the latest weather outlook is given during this status briefing is held at 10 a.m. EST on Sunday, November 15.

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STS-129: Pre-launch news conference

Posted: November 14, 2009Duration: 39 min 37 sec This is the pre-launch news conference for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission to the International Space Station with the Mission Management Team chairman, the launch director and the shuttle weather officer.

Posted: November 12, 2009Duration: 16 min 14 sec Aiming for a November 16 launch toward the International Space Station, the six astronauts to fly aboard shuttle Atlantis arrive at the Kennedy Space Center to begin counting down to blastoff.

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Poisk module docks to space station

Posted: November 12, 2009Duration: 31 min 18 sec A new multi-purpose module arrives at the International Space Station. The Poisk will serve as a docking port for visiting Russian spacecraft, an airlock for spacewalkers and a home to external science experiments.

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STS-129: Mission preview movie

Posted: November 10, 2009Duration: 11 min 38 sec This movie summarizes Atlantis' STS-129 mission that will deliver two pallets of spare parts to the International Space Station that will keep the outpost operating well after the space shuttles are retired.

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